The Farmers Weekly forums are now closed to new comments. You can share your views with us on Twitter, on Facebook or by emailing farmers.weekly@rbi.co.uk. You can also see and share pictures on our galleries.

Forums

Would love to work with a woman farmer for 1 week

I’m writing a book about pig/vegetable farming and I’m a total city person, 23, originally from Chicago, finishing my MA (Political Economy of Russia), and now opening a climate change communications consultancy around London. But I’d really love to understand what a woman farmer deals with — what are your frustrations? Your joys? What are your daily errands?

I’d love to stay at your house for around 1 week and help you out (willing to pay you, too) and learn about how, exactly, you go about being a pig farmer. I’d like to convey that to the British/International audience and be more long-term friends, too, if that’s possible?

Any farmer in the UK has to deal with many aspects whilst practising his/her art – perhaps before you get too far with your book you should read and learn the content of the following websites – the list is not exhaustive :